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Trey Hunner: Cyber Monday Python Sales

Link: https://treyhunner.com/2019/12/cyber-monday-python-sales/

I’m running a sale that ends in 24 hours, but I’m not the only one.
This post is a compilation of the different Cyber Monday deals I’ve found related to Python and Python learning.
Python Morsels, wee
Django Weblog: Django security releases issued: 2.2.8 and 2.1.15

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/02/security-releases/

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing Django 2.2.8 and Django 2.1.15. These release addresses the security issue detailed below. We encourage all users of Django t
Made With Mu: A Manga Book on CircuitPython and Mu

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2019/12/02/mu-book.html

I was recently contacted by Mitsuharu Aoyama
(青山光春), a Japanese maker and author. It turns out they’ve written a cool
book about using CircuitPython on the
Circuit Playground Express
with Mu. Not only
Django Weblog: Django 3.0 Released

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2019/dec/02/django-3-released/

The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 3.0.
The release notes cover the raft of new features in detail, but a few highlights are:

Django 3.0 begins our journey to making Django fu
Chris Moffitt: Building a Windows Shortcut with Python

Link: https://pbpython.com/windows-shortcut.html


Introduction
I prefer to use miniconda for installing a lightweight python environment on Windows. I also like to create
and customize Windows shortcuts for launching different conda environments in
Real Python: Pandas: How to Read and Write Files

Link: https://realpython.com/pandas-read-write-files/

Pandas is a powerful and flexible Python package that allows you to work with labeled and time series data. It also provides statistics methods, enables plotting, and more. One crucial feature of Pand
Janusworx: #100DaysOfCode, Day 012 – Data Structures Video Refresher

Link: https://janusworx.com/100daysofcode-day-012-data-structures-video-refresher/

Extremely tight and busy day today.
But still made the time to watch the videos for the next challenge in the course.
As a matter of fact, I think this is what I should do.
If I am in office, I ought
Mahmoud Hashemi: Thanks, 201X!

Link: http://sedimental.org/thanks_201x.html

Thought I'd take a Sunday afternoon to reflect on, oh I don't know, a decade.

Been a long ten years, but it's flown past. This particular decade
happens to coincide with my first years of full-time p
PyCharm: PyCharm 2019.3 is out now

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Pycharm/~3/Em2AaJJrOnA/

Interactive widgets for Jupyter notebooks, MongoDB support, and code assistance for all Python 3.8 features. Download the new version now, or upgrade from within you IDE.

New in PyCharm

Interactive
Python Software Foundation: Giving Tuesday 2019

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/jj7TbspCVNY/giving-tuesday-2019.html


For the first time the PSF is participating in Giving Tuesday! This event is held annually the Tuesday after Thanksgiving - this year on December 3rd, 2019. The global celebration runs for 24 hours a
NumFOCUS: Stepping Onto a New Path…

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/stepping-onto-a-new-path

The post Stepping Onto a New Path… appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Podcast.__init__: Making Complex Software Fun And Flexible With Plugin Oriented Programming

Link: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/plugin-oriented-programming-episode-240/

Starting a new project is always exciting because the scope is easy to understand and adding new features is fun and easy. As it grows, the rate of change slows down and the amount of communication ne
Janusworx: #100DaysOfCode, Day 013 – Test code using Pytest

Link: https://janusworx.com/100daysofcode-day-013-test-code-using-pytest/

Watched the video on the upcoming challenge to learn testing code.
Sounds challenging.
There are classes and decorators, which I have not worked with, but just read about.
Will see how it goes.
The
S. Lott: Functional programming design pattern: Nested Iterators == Flattening

Link: http://slott-softwarearchitect.blogspot.com/2019/12/functional-programming-design-pattern.html

Here's a functional programming design pattern I uncovered. This may not be news to you, but it was a surprise to me. It cropped up when looking at something that needs parallelization to reduced the
Learn PyQt: Creating scrollable GUIs with QScrollArea in PyQt5

Link: https://www.learnpyqt.com/courses/adanced-ui-features/qscrollarea/


When you start building apps that display long documents, large amounts of data or large numbers of widgets, it can be difficult to arrange things within a fixed-size window. Resizing the window beyo
Continuum Analytics Blog: Get Python Package Download Statistics with Condastats

Link: https://www.anaconda.com/get-python-package-download-statistics-with-condastats/

Hundreds of millions of Python packages are downloaded using Conda every month. That’s why we are excited to announce the release of condastats, a conda statistics API with Python interface and Comman
Real Python: Python, Boto3, and AWS S3: Demystified

Link: https://realpython.com/courses/python-boto3-aws-s3/

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has become a leader in cloud computing. One of its core components is S3, the object storage service offered by AWS. With its impressive availability and durability, it has b
Catalin George Festila: Python 3.7.5 : The new Django version 3.0 .

Link: http://python-catalin.blogspot.com/2019/12/python-375-new-django-version-30.html

On December 2, 2019, comes with Django 3.0 Released.
This new release comes with many changes and features, let's see :

Django 3.0 supports new versions of Python 3.6, 3.7, and 3.8 (the old Django 2.
Dataquest: Excel vs Python: How to Do Common Data Analysis Tasks

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/excel-vs-python/

In this tutorial, we’ll compare Excel and Python by looking at how to perform basic analysis tasks across both platforms. Excel is the most commonly used data analysis software in the world. Why? It’s